Toy savings-bank.



PATENTED DEC. 20, 1904.

F. A. LANE. TOY SAVINGS BANK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 10, 1903.

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JZZm'neyJ" UNITED STATES Patented December 20, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIC A. LANE, OF LITTLEFALLS, NEXV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO D. H. BURRELL &COMPANY, OF LITTLEFALLS, NEWV YORK.

TOY SAVINGS-BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 777,906, dated December20, 1904. Application filed August 10, 1903. Serial No. 168,888.

.To all w/wm/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, FEEDERIG A. LANE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Littlefalls, in the county of Herkimer and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in ToySavings-Banks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a toy savings-bank which is provided with amechanism for registering the amount of money placed in the bank.

The bank, with the exception of the registering mechanism, is of thesame general character as that described in my United States LettersPatent, dated July 21, 1903, No. 734:,268, and comprises an inclosingcasing having a coin-chamber or till, a hand-actuated rotatable oroscillating coin-carrier inclosed in said casing and provided with acoin pocket or holder into which the coin is inserted through a slot inthe casing when the coin-carrier is in the receiving position, and anejecting device which discharges the coin from the coin-carrier into thecoin-chamber when the carrier is turned to the discharging position.

The objects of this invention are to provide a registering toysavings-bank which is very simple and inexpensive in construction, whichis strong and not easily broken or gotten out of order by carelesshandling, and in which the registering mechanism is operated positivelyby a hand-actuated device.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectionalelevation of a bank embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a trans versesectional elevation thereof in line 2 2, Fig. 1, looking toward the rearof the bank. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section in line 8 3, Fig. 1, showingthe coin-carrier and registering mechanism in plan. Fig. 4 is afragmentary sectional elevation looking toward the front part of thebank. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional elevation similar to Fig. 2,showing a different position of the coin carrier. Fig. 6 is afragmentary front elevation of the bank.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures. I

A represents the inclosing casing, which is provided with a till orchamber a for the coin and above the same with a cylindrical portion a,which incloses the rotary coin-carrier and is provided in the upperportion of its cylindrical wall with a coin-slot b and in the lowerportion thereof with an opening 0, through which the coins aredischarged from the coincarrier into the coin-chamber.

D represents the rotatable or oscillating coin-carrier, which is mountedin the upper cylindrical portion a of the casing, and consists of ashaft (Z, journaled in bearings on the opposite upright walls of thecasing, and a circular disk or plate a, secured to the shaft. The frontend of the shaft projects through the front wall of the casing and isprovided with a crank or handle a for turning the ear rier. Thecarrier-disk is provided near its periphery with a radialcoin pocket orholder F, arranged parallel with the shaft and having open inner andouter ends. The pocket is of less depth than the diameter of the coinfor which the bank is intended to be used, so that the inner edge of thecoin when forced into the pocket will project beyond the inner open endthereof.

G represents the ejecting-lever for forcibly propelling the coin fromthe pocket of the carrier into the coin-chamber when the carrier is inthe discharging position with the pocket opposite the discharge-openingc. The ejecting-lever is preferably of elbow form and is pivoted at onthe disk 0 and has one arm, 9, extending across the inner open end ofthe coin-pocket, so as to be engaged by the inner edge of a coin in thepocket. The other arm, 9 is engaged by a spring secured to the disk 6and bearing with its free end against a pin g, whereby the arm g isyieldingly pressed toward the coin-pocket.

H represents a stationary curved shield which is secured to or formed onthe cylindrical portion of the casing and extends from one side of thecoin-slot b to the adjacent side of the discharge-opening c forpreventing the coin from dropping out of the coin-pocket of thecoin-carrier until the latter registers with the discharge-opening.

1 represents a cam-face which inclines inwardly from the coin-slot tothe curved shield and is preferably though not necessarily formed by anoutwardly-bent portion of the curved shield.

k and Z representstops on the casing, against which the pocket of thecoin-carrier or other suitable part thereof strikes to arrest thecarrier in the receiving and discharging positions.

When a coin is inserted in the pocket of the coin-carrier through thecoin-slot I) and the carrier is turned to the right, as indicated by thearrow in Fig. 2, the protruding edge of the coin strikes the cam-face I,and the coin is thereby forced into the pocket, its inner edge engagingthe adjacent arm of the ejectinglever G and moving the same inwardagainst the action of its spring. The ejecting-lever holds thecoinoutwardly against the curved shield H, and when the coin-carrierreaches the discharging position the coin disengages the end of theshield and is projected by the spring-pressed ejecting-lever out of thepocket through the discharge-opening into the coinchamber.

The parts above mentioned may be arranged and constructed as fullydescribed in my said patent or in any other suitable manner.

The registering mechanism is constructed as follows: M represents afiatregister wheel or disk arranged inside of the casing, adjacent to thefront wall thereof and preferably journaled to rotate on abearing-sleeve m, in which the shaft of the coin-carrier turns in thefront wall of the casing. The register-wheel is provided with a circularseries of numbers, (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 6,) which aresuccessively exposed to view through an opening a in the front wallofthe casing. The register-wheel is turned one step, or the distancebetween two adjacent numbers, upon each actuation of the coin-carrier bythe following mechanism: O represents a ratchetwheel secured to orformed on the registerwheel, and P a pawl lever or plate which ispivoted to swing or oscillate on the bearingsleeve m beside theratchet-wheel and is provided at its outer endwith a pawl 19, heldyieldingly in contact with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel by a spring19. The registerwheel and pawl-lever are confined on the bearing-sleevebetween the front wall of the casing and a fixed collar at the inner endof the bearing-sleeve and are caused to bear with considerable frictionagainst each other and the wall of the casing by swaging the end of thebearing-sleeve or otherwise. The frictional contact between the partsholds the register-wheel from play and accidental movement during thereturn movement of the pawllever. The pawl-lever is provided with alateral pin or projection q, and the arm 9 of the ejecting-lever isprovided with a driving pin or projection Q, which projects toward thepawl-lever and in the normal position of the ejecting-lever moves in acircular path, in which it clears the pin g on the pawl-lever.

When the coin-carrier is turned and the coin forced into the pocket bythe cam-face I, the ejector-lever is turned on its pivot, whereby thedriving-pin Q, is moved outwardly or away from the axis of thecoin-carrier to a position in which it will engage the pin on thepawllever and turn the latter with the carrier. The parts are soadjusted, that the pawl-lever is moved far enough before thecoin-carrier is arrested in the discharging position to turn theregister-wheel the distance between two numbers, and thereby expose thenext number.

q represents a restoring pin or projection on the disk of thecoin-carrier, which engages the pin on the pawl-lever and returns thelatter to the initial position when the coin-carrier is returned to thereceiving position for another coin. In the return movement of thepawl-lever the pawl rides over the teeth of the ratchet-wheel and at thenext forward vmovement turns the register-wheel another step.

The numbers on the register-wheel are multiples of the amountrepresented by the coin for which the bank is intended, so that thenumber exposed indicates the amount of money contained in the bank. Forinstance, the bank illustrated in the drawings is intended for five-centpieces and the numbers on the register-wheel are multiples of five.Different register-wheels having appropriate numbers can be provided forbanks intended for different coins, or similar wheels can be employedfor different coins, representing values which are multiples of thevalue of the coin for which the bank is intended. Thus theregister-wheel illustrated can be employed to register the amounts whendimes, quarters, or half-dollars are used by setting the driving-pin Q,to move the pawl-lever and register-wheel distances sufficient to exposethe second, fifth, or tenth numbers at successive operations of thecoin-carrier.

The register-wheel M is preferably intended to register fractions of adollar only, and a second register-wheel R is provided for registeringthe dollars. The dollar wheel is journaled on a stud projecting from thefront wall of the casing adjacent to the periphery of the fractionregister-wheel M and is provided with a circular series of numbersadapted to be exposed to View through an opening in the front wall ofthe casing. The dollarwheel is provided with projections or the like andthe fraction register-wheel is provided with a projection or part '1,adapted upon each complete revolution thereof to engage one of theprojections on the dollar-wheel and move the latter one step or adistance sufficient to expose the next number thereon.

S is a spring secured to the casing and bearing against two adjacentprojections a" on the dollar-wheel for yieldingly holding the latter inthe position to which it is moved by the projection on thefraction-wheel.

The two register-wheels operate in a Welllznown manner to indicate indollars and cents the amount of money Which has been introduced into thebank.

1 claim as my invention- 1. In a savings-bank, the combination of acasing provided with a coin-slot, a rotatable coin-carrier having acoin-holder adapted to register with said coin-slot in the receivingposition of the coin-carrier, coin-registering mechanism, means forforcing the coin into the holder by the rotation of the coin-carrier,and an actuating device for the registering mechanism on saidcoin-carrier and which is moved by the coin into position to operate theregistering mechanism, substantially as set forth.

2. In a savings-bank, the combination of a casing provided with acoin-chamber and a coin-slot, a rotatable coin-carrier mounted in saidcasing and provided With apocket adapted to register with said coin-slotin the receiving position of said coin-carrier, coin-registeringmechanism, an actuating device for said registering mechanism which ismovably mounted on said coin-carrier, and means for engaging and forcingthe coin into the coin-pocket by the rotation of the coin-carrier tomove said actuating device into operative position to operate saidregistering mechanism, substantially as set forth.

3. In a savings-bank, the combination of a casing provided with acoin-chamber and a coin-slot, a rotatable coin-carrier mounted in saidcasing and provided with a coin-pocket adapted to register with saidcoin-slot in the receiving position of said coin-carrier,coinregistering mechanismincluding one or more registering-wheels, meansfor rotating said wheels, an actuating device for said registeringmechanism movably mounted on said coincarrier, and a stationary devicefor engaging and moving the coin to shift said actuating device by therotation of said coin-carrier into position to engage said means forrotating said registering-Wheels, substantially as set forth.

4:. In a savings-bank, the combination of a casing provided with acoin-chamber and a coin-slot, a coin-carrier rotatably mounted in saidcasing and having a coin-pocket adapted to register With said slot inthe receiving position of said carrier, registering mechanism includingan operating ratchet and pawl mechanism, an actuating device for saidratchet-and-pawl mechanism movably mounted on said coin-carrier, andmeans for forcing the coin into said pocket by the movement of saidcoin-carrier to move said actuating device into position to operate saidratchet-and-pawl mechanism, substantially as set forth.

5. In a savings-bank, the combination of a casing provided with acoin-chamber and a coin slot, mechanism for registering the amount ofthe coins, a hand-actuated coin-carrier provided With acoin-poclretWhich registers with said slot in the receiving position of saidcoin-carrier, an ejecting device which is moved by the coin and whichacts to discharge the coin in the discharging position of the carrier,and an actuating device for said registering mechanism connected to saidejecting device, substantially as set forth.

6. In a savings-banl the combination of a casing provided with acoin-slot, coin-registering mechanism, a hand-actuated coin-carrierprovided with a coin-pocket which registers with said slot in thereceiving position of the coin-carrier, an actuating device for saidregistering mechanism mounted on said coin-carrier and which is moved bythe coin into position to operate the registering mechanism and whichacts to eject the coin from the coin-car rier when the latter is indischarging position, substantially as set forth.

7. In a savings-bank, the combination of a casing provided with acoin-slot, coin-registering mechanism, a hand actuated rotatablecoin-carrier provided with a coin-pocket which registers with saidcoin-slot in the receiving position of the coin-carrier, anactuating-lever for said registering mechanism which is pivoted on-saidcoin-carrier and is moved by the coin into position to operate theregistering mechanism and which acts to .eject the coin from thecoin-carrier When the latter is in discharging position, substantiallyas set forth.

8. In a savings-bank, the combination of a casing provided with acoin-slot, coin-registering mechanism, a hand-actuated rotatablecoincarrier into which the coin is inserted through said slot when thecoin-carrier is in receiving position, an actuating device for saidregistering mechanism mounted on the coin-carrier, and means forengaging the coin and shifting said actuating device when thecoin-carrier is moved, said actuating device also acting to eject thecoin from the coin-carrier when the latter is in discharging position,substantially as set forth.

9. The combination of a rotatable coin-carrier having an open-endedcoin-pocket disposed transversely of the plane of n'iovement of thecoin-carrier, an elbow-lever pivoted on said carrier and having one armarranged opposite to the open inner end of the coin-pocket, a drivingprojection on the other arm of said lever, a pawl-arm having aprojection which is engaged by said driving projection when the lever isshifted by the coin, a pawl on said arm, and a registering mechanismactuated by said pawl, substantially as set forth.

I/Vitness my hand this 7th day of August, 1903.

FREDERIC LANE.

WVitnesses:

GRIFFITH PRIoHARD, FRANK A. TINKER.

